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1 AXTON H A A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTEREST. VOL. IV. NO. 42. MAXTON. N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1890. I.no A YEAR la. V M "T? V UNI ON TOWN DIRECTORY. 2 F. McLEAN Mayor. n W McNATT 0 H. BLOCKER, S. BYRNES, -y.' j. CURRIE, J BkRCK, Town Marshal. LODGES. Commis' sioners. I1TS OT HONOR, No. l,72JLmeete 'j 1 fcrnnd ana fourth Wednesday a at 7. DO P. M. J. B. WEATHERLY, Dic tator 15. P. McLEAN, Reporter. Y M. C. A., meets every Sunday at 7.SC p. M. WM. BLACK, President. "MAXTON GUARDS, WM. BLACK. Captain, meets first Thursday nights of each month at 8 P. M. CHOSEN FRIENDS meet on second and fourth Monday in f aeli month. Argus Shaw, Chief Counselor; S. W. Pnrham, 8eretary and Treasurer. MAXTON LODGE, KNIGHTS OF f'YTHIYS, meets every Friday night. fejt firat in each month, at b o'clock. p.OBKBON COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY A -T A Bmith, Preident; E K Proctor Jr., IkV cc Pres ; Dr .T D i'roon', 2nd V i'.; A D Browu. Rer'y; Wo Bl rk, Tress. Ti Depositary; Ex Com. Itv II Ci Hi' J, I) li. L 8 Tbnsend, D P McKcccern, J O iov.frh, H McK;h ru: Auditing Com., . F Mcftae. O H Blocker and B D CaMwtll. EXECUTIVE COMMITTER. Rev Joneph Evan, Rev II O Hill. D D, Rev J ft iJlaek, Rev ) I MetkF, Rev J FFinlayson, .log McCoilurn, J P Smith, Tmncan M'Jay, Sr. N B Brown, Dr J L MeMillkii. ACDITINO COMMITTEE. J V Kmith, I) II McNeill, J A Humphrey rTaeof next meeting Lumberton, N. C. Tune of next meeting Thur6dv, May r)jh, nt 11:30 o'clock a. m. JBitilea and lextaaientfi can be purchased of Wm. Black, Depository, Maxton, N. C, t c-t. All cburche and Bible Societies in the eotiniy invited to8-nd delegates. Forward all f-olwctinji to Wm Black, JreQHinvr, Maxton. N C. PBJiSRYTERIAN, REV. DR. II. O "If ILL, Pastor. Services ach Sabbath nt 4 P. M. Sunday School nt 10 A. M. Prayer meeting" every Wednesday afternoon at o o'clock. 31KTHUDIST, REV. J. W. JONES pttor. Services each Sunday at 11 A. M. Sunday" School at 9 80 A. M. MASONIC. MAXTON LODGE A. F. & A. M. mts 1st Friday night in each n iith at 8 r. m. ;;nfral directory of "Robeson County. Senator, J. F. Payne. J?tyietfntatives, f T. M. Watson. ( D. C. Regan. I E. V. M R ie j W. P. Moore, V)'inA ( om'nifsioners, P. Stant il, ) T. McF.ryle. I J. 8. Olivir, C. $.'.. C R. Townseud. herrjr. II. WEswhen. RtT'r Deed?, .1. 11. Morrison, Trr'jisurer. W. W. McDairmid. ) J. A. McAllister IWrd r,f Education " J. S. Black, J. S. McQueen. Purs- Pub. Instr'n, J. A. McAlister. Cor ner& Supt. of Health, Dr. F Lis R An abused sailor at Newport, R. L, has sued the Government for $1C,000 iafcares for ill-treatment. ' The subject of lie economical prepa ration of .several textile materials which can. be easily gron. in the Southern States is ; just now attracting much at tention. Some experiments have been recently fmade by the Agricultural De-partme-A . Avith otira fibre, which, the New '.fork Times says, shows that this rrc-tict may easily substitute the im Pvted jute if it can be produced '.heaply enough. The whole difficulty is 'in the want of the requisite machinery. The raw material is plentiful and cheap enough, but its successful raanutacture "has not yet been achieved. The same may be said of the cotton stalk and of ramie, but it seems that American me chanics should be able to circumvent the difficulty if only their attention be drawn to it. Swedish colonization Tvill socn be an ornmnliiPil fact in Vermont. Mr. Valentine, the Commissioner of Airn- cultural and Manufacturing Interest, ;? just completing arrangement' for set tling a dozen families from Sweden in Verthire, a town about thirty miles from the capital nf the State. Ths people cf the town are said to be "thoroughly in earnest regarding the proposed coloniza tion scheme," and the Citizens' Com mittee offer the new settler a dozen farms of from seventy-five to one hun dred acres each, at prices ranging from $2 to $5 per acre, and "also agree to loan $25 in cash and furnish a cow for a stipulated period to each tamily.'' It is expected that about thirty Swedish families, numbering one hundred and fifty persons, will be established in Ver mont the coming spring. In the opinion of the New York Tribune this experiment in repopulating the deserted farms on the NeW Eneland hillside will be ob- -a mst 1K-T ai1 NEWS SUMMARY. FROM ALL OVER THE flOTJTHLAHD. Accidents. Calamities Pleasant Hewi and Notes of Industry. VTRQIHIA. The first land sale of the Pittsburg Development company took place in the new iron manufacturing town of Car negie City, Va. All lots offered were freely taken at prices largely in excess of the listed prices. William W. Worsham, one of the most prominent citizens of Danville, and a member of the City Council, died Thursday after a lingering illness. The postoffice department has decided upon fiee delivery for Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, to go into effect July, 1st. The University will be made a station for the sale of postage stamps, money order and postal notes. A stamp station has also been offered for the Union depot (V. M. junc tion). There are to be four carriers. At Wakefield, this week, a negro was anested, being charged with stealirjg the wedding tickets of a young man soon to be married. The accused was taken before a magistrate, and as good case could not be madeaout the cost fell on the prosecutor. Thomas Bishop was found guilty at Petersburg of murder in the second de gree and sentenced to six years in the Penitentiary. A telegram announces a strike at Po cahontas mines, which is serious. Thirty days ago the engineers, firemen, brake -men and team drivers, in the employ of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, notified the company they would not submit to a reduction of wag es proposed, and on the morning for the new scale to go into effect not a man reported for duty. A committee an nounced to the office of the company that the men would; not accept the re duction. The strikers number five hun dred mea who are determined in their position . TENNESSEE The Merchants' end Traders' Produce exchance, which failed last week at Nashville, will reopen. The firm lost all the capital stock, and $400,000 profits, but are willing to raise more and try i1 again. The postoffice department is informed of the arrest of Henry M. Henderson, postal clerk on the Ohattariooga and Memphis Railway postoffice line, charged with robbing the mails, lest mone) t was found on his person. Hon. Henry Watterson and Mr. Albert Roberts, his partner in the publication of the Chattanooga Eebel in 1863, were shown the sights of Chattanooga, Thursday. Mr. watterson has not been there before since his hasty exodus with his paper, the Rfhd, before the advance of General Roeecrans' army in the sum mer of 1863. The will of the late William H. Gill, I who left large properties in Texas and I Davidson countv. Tenn., has been set aside in eo 'for as it left the property in trusfo Bishop McTyeire and the Catholic bishops of Rashville for the benefit of the poor of Nashville and Davidson ojouoty, in case his children should die without heirs. As an outgrowth of accident on the Missionary Ridge Incline railway, during the reunion of the Army of the Cumber land one day last : September, damage suits against the Chattanooga Electric Railway company, to the amount of $121,000 havejbeen entered in the Circuit court. A car in which the people were riding, came down hill on the run, a the rails were wet, arid as the electric cur rent was notjstrongenough,the occupants were thrown out. East Tennessee is to have amother new town; nsw life is to be instilled into one already in existence. Clinton is the for tunate place, and plans are now on foot to make it one of the most thriving and pr0Sper0UB places in the state. It has iust leaked out that some large capitalists have invested heavily and will develop their property and the surrounding coun try. The pentlemen interested own and control 1,036 acres of land in and around the town. NORTH CAROLINA. Demens & Harding, of Asheville, N. C. were awarded the contract for con- structlDC the new postoffice building at that place, for $70,000. The State Treasurer's report shows that North Carolina received last year $4,116,S4 for marriage licenses. It is reported that in the past fifteen months 71.000 negroes have left North Carolina. It is stated tnst this estimate is made on reliable data and upon careful investigation. ' j The survey of the route of the French Broad Valley railrosd has been complet ed and the maps drawn. It is expected that work will begin within the next 30 days. What is known as the "outlying lands," a tract of about ten thousand acres, in Mitchell county, belonging to heirs of Colonel Isaac f. Avery, has been sold to a Northern syndicate for between $20, 000 and $30,000. There are valuable iron deposits on the land which will be de veloped by the syndicate. A new department is beinjj organized at the Salem Female Academy which receive the name of Industrial ue- rjartment, and will embrace as its chief branches, cooking and dressmakmg. The directors of me soutnern ami nr..i T.in Rilroad. have held a lay rails at once. A survey of the entire line, from Shelby by way of Morganton and Linville city to Cranberry, has been completed, andtwenty-two miles of road have been graded. A syndicate at Henderson has just purchased a gold mine in Nash county, near the famous Arrington mine, paying for it $90,000. Large and well dented veins have been discovered there, near the surface and easy to work. The gold is said to be of marvelous richness. SOUTH CAROLINA. The State Teachers Institute will be beld at Greenville this summer, commenc ing July 21, and continuing for two weeks. Ail teachers in the State are in vited. to attend. A draft was received at Charleston for $125,000. the balance of the purchase money for the Union Cotton Press and Wharf company property, which was recently purchased by McDonald & Gal- lacher. of New York, the amount of J purchase being $150,000. This insures the building of a belt line railroad con cecting with all the roads entering Charleston, and extending from the city limits along the east water front to the battery. The construction of the road will enable'the railroads to deliver and i cceive freights at every wharf on Ashley river. The Spartanburg eounty commission eri held a meeting and decided to move forward with the building of the new Court House. They ask architects to submit plans in which seems best adapt ed to their wants. Major George B. Edwards, superinten dent of the Sub-Tropical Refrigerator Company, said that the daily shipment of strawberries from Charleston was about 30,000 quarts. The consignments were distributed, some going to New York, others to Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Four one-hundred candle power lights will be on the square at Anderson while the balance of the city will be lighted by sixty thirty-two candle power lights. The Governor of South Carolina has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of Green Brown, a negro con victed of the murder of John Hood, Sr., father of the sheriff of Chester county. It was shown that the negro believed Hood to be a man named Hooper, who had been paying improper attentions to his wife. GEORGIA. Mr. J. R. Steel, formerly with the Florida Fruit exchange, has accepted the position of eecretary and treasurer of the Georgia Fruit exchange, with head quarters in Macon. Tiie annual meeting of the State Den tal society will be held at Gainesville, on the 9;h day of July, and will be in ses sion about four days. There are about three hundred and fifty dentists in the State. Work has been actively begun upon the buildings for the Americus iron w orks and machine 6hops. Albany real estate has doubled in valnc within the past two years all round. One instance is known where it trebled itself in fifteen months, and a price of four acres on the suburbs that cost $1,000 two years ago, has been divided up, and three-fourths of it sold for ,900, and Uic other fourth, with a small house on it, is held at $2,000. A petition is being circulated among the students of the State University, the object of which is to change the custom of making Saturday a half holiday, and carry on the regular recitations through that" day, and make Monday a holiday instead. As it is now, students are com pelled to study in order to prepare for their Monday' recitations. It is thought that the chaDge will be made. Mr. W. H. Newsome, the boss melon o-rower of Lee county, made a remarka ble crop of hay on his melon patch list year after raising his brag melons. He bad thirty acres in melons, on which he raised one' hundred and forty bale of hrfy, averaging three hundred and fifty pounds per Dale, ier wnicn nay us got er-ntv-five cents per hundred. Besice this he fed his stock on it all winter. This was a clean pick-up of $367.50 without any cultivation. OTHER STATE3. Fire destroyed the entire business por tion of Greenwood, Miss. The fire i said to have been caused by a negro ccok throwing ashes on a pile of straw. Thirty three homes were destroyed and two lives are said to have been lust. The victims were John Dcrch and an un known man. A Tallahassee. Fla., special says: W. I W. Pembio, commissioner for the organ- nation oi me Douiueru imcr-oi im migration bureau, arrived here and in a very few hours organized the first branch in Florida for perfecting a bureau of the great Southern Inter-otate Exposition and permanent traveling ex hibition to be held in one of the -large Northern cities in 1891. There are ten charter members, with G. W. Saxon as president. Branches will be formed in every large city and town in Florida. Boston or Chicago will probably be the city chosen for the exposition. Several raids have been made upon illicit distillers in the jurisdiction of the United States court at Aberdeen, Miss. The seizure computed the Hosier still, in Tishomingo county, and the Tom Bashur still, Davis and Birnes still, sad Poindexter and Blackshur still, in Al corn county. The property was hauled to the railroad at -Connth and Burns rilleand destroyed. It included 5,000 fallonsofbeer and mash tubs, stills, oases, etc., worth several thousand dollars. The ownen were wmwu u THE PARKERS PROGRESSING. They Add Banking Facilities to Their Co operative Warehouse in Griffin. A Griffin, Ga., special eays: Put an other bank down for Griffin. Tb.3 last legislature granted the Far mers' Co operative Ccmpany and oil mill of Griffin the power of adding a banking, investment, loan and trust company to their manufacturing invest ment. Their object is to lend money to worthy farmers, so they can make cash purchases instead of having to deal on time. Of the organization the Morning Call of Thursday says the following: The company will have a thirty-ton oil mill, with a capacity of $15,000 oil a week; a new ginnery, fire-proof and brick, which will gin and pack a bale of cotton in ten minutes; a guano mill and bone that will turn out 5,000 tons of guano; an excellent electric plant, and waterworks capable of throwing 10,000 gallons of water anywhere on the build ings in a moment's notice; a seed huse, costine over $1,500, and that will hold VHSt quantities of seed ; their phosphate lands and acid chambers, their lots down the railroad, the Tutwilder and other property giving them a plant property and running capital to the amount of 9O,00O. It will be of great benefit to the farm -f rs of middle Georgia and the merchants of Griffin, and will trow up into an in stitution of which all our people will be proud. It will take over $100,000 to handle its phosphate and guano, which amount the Griffin bank will largely urnish. Mr. Searcy, the president, is working up the financial features, and says he -ees great success ahead for all who are fortuuate enongh to own stook in this valuable property. The following are the officers of the company: W. E. H. Bearcy, president; J. H. Walker, manager; J. F. Btillwell, secre tary; R. H. Johnson, treasurer. ANOTHER BIS DEAL. The Farmers' Alliance have made a sre deal. They have invested in a arge tract of phosphate lands in Flor al a, from which their guano factory ill be supplied here. A chemical malysis in the possession of President Searcy, made by the State chemist of Florida, puts the strength of thia phos phate eight per cent ahead of that froiu he beds of Charleston, S. C. Not only 8 it stronger, but by owning and oper iting tteir own phosphate beds, the uano can be furnished to customers at i little lower figure than it in at preseut furaisle 1 them. Mr. Searcy and his eo-laborers cer tainly have the farmers' interest at heart, md are not leaving anything undone rhat will give them one cent advantage ia a trade. Arrest of Nottd Criminals. A Birmingham. Ala., special says J. N. Sigsby and his son, WillSigsby, were arrested in Walker county on a charge of making and passing counterfeit money. The arrest proves to be a more impor tant one than was at first supposed. The Sigabjs, it; was learned Friday, are the last of the once famous Joe Bennefield band of counterfeiters and outlaws, who operated in Georgia, Tennessee aad Ala bama. This band made and passed thousands of dollars of counterf eitmoney , and killed six detectives who attempted to capture them at different times. Joe Bennefield is now serving a long term in prison, and several members of the old gang are dead. The Sigsbjs were the iast of the band left. Some time ago Deputy United States Marshal Byers lo cated Sigsby, and. representing himself as a fugitive from justice, obtained board at the old man's house in the mountains. He gain id the confidence of fho old outlaw, and was soon invited to join in the work of makiDg counterfeit dollars. u;aKr Urt asked the officer to ioin in blowing up a house with dynamite for the oureose of robbery. The mould used by the Sigsbys, which were the same used by Bennefidld, were captured, together with several hundred dollars of s curious coin . New Orleans Partially Overflowed. New Orleans, April 28. The north- ; west wind, which blew very strong again ; last night, drove in the Gulf water and agaiu overflowed the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and all trains have ; been abandoned. The wind last night again caused the like water to encrouch ; upon the rear f the city north of Clai borne street, and some trouble is expe rienced by water from the canal flowing over the banks of the Old Basin on both sides, between Johnston end Galnez streets, but not mtficieat to do any gTeat damage: The rear of the 7th ward up to Rowan street, from Elysian Fields to St. Bernard street, and the entire rear of the 8th ward, are flooded, and the water is rapidly risicc. The Confederate wTiite Hama. The initial steps looking to the tnoof.r of the Davis Mansion (White ilou of the Confederscy) at Richmond, Va , to the ladies of the Hollywood Memorial Association to be used as a jiuseum for Confederate relics, was taken i'V the Richmond city council. It is designed that each of the SDuth irn States shall hsve a room in the build ;e b2 ladies of the association, m uniuaM ,Q wita ri0 veteran ortn z itlon ia Richmond, will make a for-n-al epreilto Mr. Davis to allow the remius vf ter husbicd to be buried in toe old mansion where Mr. end Mr. Dsvis resided during tne war. , Fremont R'V'ra?. President Harriaoa has approved the IhII making Garal Frtmont & Major-Ore eral on the retired list of tha UnitJ 8tates army. JOBS CHA&LE8 rRZXOST. Ifajor-Graeral Fremont, taji th Nw York Herald, is now in his seventy -eighth ?rr and resides on Staten Island, N. T. Tfc ovely driveway which extends from New Brighton around the shore is lined by stately old mansions with Corinthian pillars, as well aa with more modern Queen Anne and Gothic cottages. In one of the latter is the present home of John C. Fremont, the dar ing and half-forgotten Presidential candidate, with whose name the country onoe rang from end to end . Old he is, bat feeble not at all He carries hit years with a step as springv and a form as straight as thev were when he carved a pathway over the Rooky Mountains to the new 13 Dorado nearly fifty years ago. His snowy white hair and whiskers are as neatly kept as were his blond locks in the davs when he stole the heart of pretty Jeesie Benton In spite of her father's protest. John Bnll Scoops the Cotton. The Courier-Journal refers to sa queer situation in the cotton market that has already been foreshadowed in the Constitution's commercial articles namelv, that the American cotton m manufacturers have heon caught nap ping by the British buyers and will now have to pay dearly for their 6nooze. The American cotton manufacturers have waited too long before laying in their supplies, yet their course has all the justification cm give it. The cot ton crop of last year was the largest that has ever been raised, and Ameri can manufacturers naturally supposed that the market would be able to pro cure their supplies at a season when money was easy and the price of cot ton lower. The season has not yet arrived, and their is now no likelihood that it will. Great Britain has been buying heavily f American cotton, and, as a result, prices have been gradually advancing. The stock in Liverpool amounts to 1, !75,000 bales, 316,000 more than ,ur the same period last year. The figures 6bow that there is not enough cotton in this country to sup ply demands of the American mills, and the probability is that they will have to buy their supplies in Great liritain and have them shipped back here. It is a cold day when John Bull out wits Jonathan, but it will be remem bered that we have been having some peculiar weather lately. To r;;?sprvo Ileal tjy Fest The bc?t fitting shoes that oce can procure will fail to preserve the feet in healthy condition without healthful stockings. The pained feet often bek relief in thinner stocking?, regardless of season; or weather. This practice in winter is to bo deprecated, except in the house, where an equable temperature is maintained. The change, even tempor- - .11 amy, more fr.m woolen to cotton, is sun dangerous to. health. Better put I on -larger sa i Caution n es than to take this mk. lould be used in choice of colors, in order to avoid Uiooa poison ing. The best quility cf hose, dyed in tac thread, arc not very apt to part with their colors on the feet. In the cheap Tades natural tints are safest, such as the gray?. KM, greens ana purpies had betr be eschewed. A safe plan with all ehcan grades of t ck, is to have them thor jg'aly cashed before wearing them at all. In a hytienic cense shoes are more per fectiv jtuanted i i the want of the feet than leg h'ocia. There are occasions and situations in which the latter are pre ferable, but as leather is so marly non porous as to permit of but a limited escape of moi? ture. the smaller the area of the body covered by it the better it is fnr h- m'r?oa. For persons wha-walk i v i much on paved streets the shoe thing. S'tof 'in? Leather Reporter th An Enormous Cannon. The American Consul at DuueldorfJn a recent report, describe the largest gun xet manufactured at Krupp's works at Een, which is intended for the forti fications of Cronstadt. It is made of the finest quality cast steel and weighs 270, OOO pounds "(about 135 tons); thecalibre is 16, iucli. and the barrel 44 feet long, the rjre htv.g been removed in one pier,- The greatest, diameter is 16? leet, and the range abont 12 miles. It will tire two shot per minute, each esti mated to cost 15X. At the trial the projectile. 4 f?t long and weighing 2600 pouc I, was propelled by a charge of 7'0 pounds cf powder, and penetrated 13 inchts ofarmcr, going 1312 yards be yond the target. TUNNELING THE HUDS0H. GREAT ENOIJJEEB1NO HILAR ING COMPLETION. The Tunneling lnrj; rees Five Yard sDat-Hoir the Work la Carried on-What It Will Cost. The work of tunneling lueuratb tha ( Hudson River between New lork and Jersey City, is carried on o quietly that the public is hardly aware that the an. dertakine begun more than fifteen years ! ago is still being pushed forward. Tha delay in completing the work has beta occasioned by financial difficulties, aad is not caused by any difficult engineering preblem that need be solved in order to finish it. The tunnel was projected about twenty years ago by Colonel D. C. Haskin, who at that time prepared plana which were afterward adopted. He organized tha Hudson Tunnel Railway Company, which was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey and New York, and was author ized to issue bonds , to the amount of 110,000,000 each. At first a series ef borings were taken to find a suitable place for the tunnel. These borings re sulted in the selection of the present Ua of the tunnel, which, on account of a deep stratum of silt extending nearly to the New York side, was found well adapted for the purpose. In November, 1874, the actual worlrf of construction was belgun on the New. Jersey side. But the work was soon af terward arrested on account of legal difficulties, and it was not resumed vsftfJ the latter part of 1670 . In July, twenty workmen were drownoa, wnie, occasioned additional delay. The tat- nel, where the men were at work, eot-'j lapsed, and filled with water eo rapidly! that the men were unable to eacapa.j Two vcars later the work was stopped for want of money. Work waa reemaeal in June, 18S7, and has been carried car" steadily since. i S. Pearson & Son, of Westminster; England, recently were given tha coa-i tract to finish the tunnel by means of tfcei Oreathead shield syitcm. The Greathead system of tunneling is the same aa that used in the Thames subway, now prao-f tically completed. It consists in driviajt an annular shield forward by meane of hydraulic pressure. It is expected that the tunnel can be advanced about fifteO feet per day with thia shield, which will be driven by six presses. j The work consists really of two tun-, ncls, running parallel with each other, and close together. Each tunnel is lined with a shell of iron, built up of gj4 three-sixteenths of an inch thick. With in this shell a brick ! lining, 2f feet, thick, is placed. The tunnels are oval in section, with diametefs of 16$ and Iff, feet. The English contractors will make) the tunnel 20 feet in diameter. This b to be dene by substituting a 2-inch Iran jhcll in place of the; thinner one now used, thereby not requiring so thick a lining of brick. ? On the New Jersey side the north tun nel has advanced 2050 feet and the soutlr tunnel about 550 feet. On the New York fide the north tunnel has been advanced j'oout 150 feet and the south tunnel if barely begun. The work is prosecuted oy air pressure. In the north tunnel on the New Jersey side a bulkhead is estab lished about 1500 feet from the shaft,; This bulkhead is built of brick and if lbout four feet in thickness. Through ;his an air lock extends and beyond this point a continual pressure of about twen-.y-four pounds to the square inch if maintained. The air lock is a cyHn- ... !- 1 11 Irical iron shell resemniing a wjuot,( Ifteen snd a half feet in length' ind six feet in diameter. There is a door on each end, bat only jne can le opened at a time so as not to ;ause an escape of air. Heavy glass wia iows on each admit of communication Dy means of written messages. Near the leading there is another air lock the pres mre being increased to about thirty-two rounds. Beyond this air lock the work nen may be seen removing with shovels .he dirt which is drawn away, in small mrs drawn by mules. As fast as the dirt s removed the iron plates of the shell ara wrought forward and bolted. The brick-( avers follow and then so much is coca-i jfeted. In advance of the finished tua-, iel is a large iron tube six feet in diame xt. This is called the "pilot" and if' iarricd well in advance of the tunnel, Hf Durpcse U to explore the ground and to ratch against any weak points. If an advance of fifteen feet pet day nn be made the north tunnel would ra-t juire about 250 days to complete it and. be south tunnel about 340 days. It if fstimted that $300,000 will finished tha lorth tunnel between the shafts and tl 2:0.000 will complete the south ha ul. About $1,500,000 has already been spent ca the work. When the tunnels ara inished about three hundred paftenger ind freight train may po through each lay. T.ie tunnel will a!0 be used for deducting paeumttic tubes, telegraph' itd telephone wires aero the river. Power of s Growing Tree. There u a black birch tree near York, Me., says! a correspondent of the ,St. Lotdf fcpullu, only about tbirty-flTe feet hisb, two roots of which have been able to lift a granite boulder, computed to weigh at !eat twenty tons, about twelve inches from it original resting plaee. The tree is still growing and the reck continues to be raised end pushed up ward and sideways at the rate of abOTt tp inch a vear. . f - . d dIdU.: I Ukn to Aberfn fo, triiL throughout the country. meeting at Moreanton
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